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  • Microsoft's Cloud-Based CRM Platform Gets FedRAMP Board OK Via Accelerated Authorization Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Cloud-Based CRM Platform Gets FedRAMP Board OK Via Accelerated Authorization Process

    Microsoft has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board for the company’s cloud-based customer relationship management software offering for public sector clients. The company said Thursday its Dynamics CRM Online Government platform has been granted P-ATO at moderate level through the FedRAMP Accelerated process that works to expedite the CSP certification timeline within six months or less. […] More

  • Former Cybercom Deputy Commander Robert Schmidle Appointed Endgame Adviser; Nate Fick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Cybercom Deputy Commander Robert Schmidle Appointed Endgame Adviser; Nate Fick Comments

    Robert Schmidle Jr., retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general and former U.S. Cyber Command deputy commander, has joined Endgame‘s advisory board. Endgame said Thursday Schmidle has years of experience through his service with the Marine Corps and the Defense Department, where he was principal deputy director of cost assessment and program evaluation at the Office of the Secretary of Defense. “Lt. Gen. Schmidle’s strategic […] More

  • Navy Picks TEGAM Bond Test System for Ship, Aircraft Maintenance Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks TEGAM Bond Test System for Ship, Aircraft Maintenance Efforts

    TEGAM has secured $900,000 in orders from the U.S. Navy to supply portable micro-ohm and bond test equipment to help address the aircraft and ship maintenance requirements of the service branch and U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Wednesday it expects to complete deliveries of the R1L-E2A electrical bonding meter system to the Navy by the end of this year. R1L-E2A is designed to comply with ATEX, UL and CSA […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Supplies Updated Tactical Missile System to Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Supplies Updated Tactical Missile System to Army

    The U.S. Army has received the first updated Tactical Missile System with new guidance electronics and target elimination features from Lockheed Martin. Lockheed said Wednesday the TACMS missiles underwent a refurbishment process at its production facility in Camden, Arkansas, in effort to extend the missiles’ service life. The process also works to allow the integration of new payloads and components as […] More

  • HHS Selects CSRA to Update HR Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Selects CSRA to Update HR Mgmt System

    CSRA has received a potential five-year, $38.9 million contract to help update the Department of Health and Human Services‘ human resources management system. The company said Thursday it will work to upgrade the HHS human resource solutions division’s PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 8.9 suite to the PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 version. CSRA will also design, develop and integrate the suite and related interfaces […] More

  • Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Airbus, Dassault Land Contract for European Drone Definition Study - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Airbus, Dassault Land Contract for European Drone Definition Study

    Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Airbus and Dassault Aviation have received a contract to conduct a two-year definition study of a program that seeks to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft system for European countries. Germany, France, Spain and Italy participated in the launch of the contract for the European MALE RPAS program through a meeting led by the […] More

  • ManTech Subcontracts Govplace for Agency Cybersecurity & Cloud Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Subcontracts Govplace for Agency Cybersecurity & Cloud Systems

    Govplace has received subcontract from ManTech International to provide cybersecurity and cloud systems to federal agencies in support of the government-wide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation and Continuous Monitoring as a Service initiatives. Govplace said Thursday it will work with prime contractor ManTech under CDM Group F phases 1 and 2 that cover 44 federal agencies through a government-only shared services platform […] More

  • Ingalls Shipbuilding Selects Aras Platform to Manage Ship Engineering Processes; Peter Schroer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ingalls Shipbuilding Selects Aras Platform to Manage Ship Engineering Processes; Peter Schroer Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has selected Aras to provide an enterprise product lifecycle management software for use in the shipyard’s engineering processes. Aras will deliver the Aras Innovator platform and work to standardize Ingalls Shipbuilding’s processes, systems and databases onto one platform, Aras said Monday. Ingalls Shipbuilding will use the Aras Innovator platform to handle models, […] More

  • SAE ITC Forms Consortium in Push to Help Army Streamline Vehicle Tech Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAE ITC Forms Consortium in Push to Help Army Streamline Vehicle Tech Adoption

    SAE Industry Technologies Consortia has established a nonprofit consortium of commercial automotive manufacturers and suppliers that will work to help the U.S. Army adopt new automotive technologies. SAE ITC said Tuesday the Defense Automotive Technologies Consortium will address technology areas such as automotive cybersecurity, vehicle safety and lightweighting, autonomous and connected vehicles, intelligent systems and advanced energy storage technologies. “Headquartered […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Combat System on Future Australia Submarine Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Combat System on Future Australia Submarine Fleet

    Lockheed Martin‘s Australia-based subsidiary has been awarded a contract install combat systems on 12 future ­submarines for that country’s navy, The Australian newspaper reported Friday. Brendan Nicholson writes Lockheed will integrate the combat systems in partnership with Australia’s defense department and France-based company DCNS. DCNS was chosen for the potential $38.7 billion contract in April to help design 12 submarines that will replace Australia’s fleet of Collins-class […] More

  • DigitalGlobe's Base Map Adds 10M Square Miles Into 12-Inch Imagery Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe’s Base Map Adds 10M Square Miles Into 12-Inch Imagery Service

    DigitalGlobe has made approximately 9.7 million square miles of 11.8-inch resolution commercial satellite imagery available through the company’s online base map. DigitalGlobe said Wednesday more than 500 population centers in the Basemap +Metro product are now available at 11.8-inch resolution as well as 1,700 cities available at 19.7-centimeter or better resolution. The company added its Basemap Suite of products now offers 57.9 […] More

  • Navy-Sponsored ‘Innovation Crossover’ Conference Seeks to Advance Cyber, Defense Tech Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy-Sponsored ‘Innovation Crossover’ Conference Seeks to Advance Cyber, Defense Tech Collaboration

    The U.S. Navy will sponsor a two-day conference that will kick off Oct. 12 in Bloomington, Indiana, in an effort to promote technology research collaboration among defense, industry and academic institutions. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, will host the “Innovation Crossover: The Shape of Things to Come” conference and organizers expect the event […] More